Hmm, I have four rare white creatures fighting for three white rare slots. But I have an open white mythic slot. Could try to find a tweak to this, Lord of the Demesne, Dashing Pilot or Mustachioed Pilot to make one of them feel mythic.

Or I could just bin one of them, probably one of the pilots. (Perhaps keep the idea for the second set if I decide I really like them all.)

Is his name Candon (in which case missing a comma), or is he the CI of an area called Candon?

Never mind, just saw Candon Sergeant

Yeah. It's a metropolitan city. Some of these things should be made clearer by flavour text when I go around adding it.

This turned out rather fiddly in playtesting. Needs more playtesting to see if it's worth it.

Is it just me or does this (and others like it) feel like the creature subtype should just be Police rather than Policeman ?? because technically, going by the art,this should be a Policewoman and what are the elves going to think when you call them PoliceMEN ??? Just a small quibble (you could always call them Officers as in Officer of the Law). :-)

Yeah, I had realised the unfortunately sexist terminology. I don't think the Victoriana feel of the setting is sufficient excuse for that, really, so I should do something to fix it.

"Creature - Human Officer" is a nice option - thanks :) It does have the unfortunate aspect that it can apply to soldiers as well as the police force. Many terms have this problem. "Creature - Human Guard" doesn't, but feels somehow denigrating... a Chief Inspector isn't a mere "Guard". "Creature - Human Cop" could be fun, but it's a bit slangier than the type line usually is (apart from things like Gelectrode...) "Creature - Human Police" feels rather stilted, but may be my best option.

I don't know if this is splashy enough for rare. How about "Collaborate, Collaborate"?

I think it's fine - white weenie deck drops a 1/1 t1, 2/2 t2, this t3 then the others attack - that's a 2/2 & 3/3 swinging on T3 - kinda strong.

It's basically a Glorious Anthem effect... Those have occasionally been uncommon (Kabira Vindicator, Nagao, Bound by Honor), but they're more normally rare. Plus this is slightly more complex and fiddly than that, because you get N pumps to distribute among N attackers, basically any way you like except all to the same creature...

Are you proposing that a creature which just has double-Collaborate itself should be rare, or one that grants double Collaborate to all your creatures? The former definitely seems uncommon to me.

Would double collaborate even work? It feels to me like its an ability you either have or don't have (like First Strike, Flying, Rally Cry, etc) though I may be (and probably am) wrong.

Sorry about the confusion. I was inferring that an interesting choice would be to increase the CC so the creature could give Collaborate, Collaborate to your entire team. I'm not arguing that a new mechanic with a Glorious Anthem like effect isn't rare... it just feels too safe to me. Espescially when it only requires the addition of one word to make some players say "Holy Crap!"

By the by, double collaborate would probably work. The rules team would probably line it up with other cards that work in duplicate such as "Bushido, Bushido", "Flanking, Flanking" and "Bloodthirst, Bloodthirst".

Collaborate is triggered, so it'd certainly work; I might add an uncommon policeman with double collaborate in set 2. Battle cry as on Accorder Paladin is also triggered (note the "whenever") and would work in multiples, though you're right that flying and first strike are no use in multiples.

As for granting double collaborate to everyone, that'd be even more confusing and fiddly than giving them all single collaborate, I suspect. I'd be wary of saying it's "safe", too: if you have this card out and attack with three tokens and a 1/1 Aerobatic Pilot, the tokens can all target the double striking flyer with their collaborate triggers.

True enough. This is, after all, just a matter of taste. Though, this conversation is making me realize that they could easily be printing Glorious Anthem at common nowadays. Maybe it's above the curve too much... I'm not sure. Glorious Anthem sure ain't no Ajani Goldmane, though.